Ghosts of BaltimoreThe lost and untold stories of Baltimore

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Streetcars, old theaters and Memorial Stadium survive here in photographs and newspaper accounts. Other views record individual blocks before later changes.

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Rows of white Chesapeake Bay steamboats tied up along the Baltimore harbor, with the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower and downtown buildings behindBefore Harborplace: The Light Street Wharves and the Working Basin9 min readSun graphic of the 1979 Camden Yards plan: a block map lettered A to K between Pratt and Hill streets, with a sketch of the planned office towers, hotel and housingThe Camden Yards That Almost Was: Baltimore’s $170 Million Plan, 1979-19849 min readMemorial Stadium's brick front on 33rd Street with the curved memorial wall and light towers, under a blue skyMemorial Stadium: The Story of Baltimore’s Ballpark on 33rd Street14 min read

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Diners at white-clothed tables in Haussner's dining room, under walls crowded with gilt-framed paintings and a row of marble bustsHaussner’s, the Baltimore Restaurant Where Every Wall Was a Gallery11 min readSun advertisement headed Negroes Wanted, signed Hope H. Slatter, Pratt Street, 1844Hope Slatter’s Pratt Street Slave Pen and the People Held There9 min readBaltimore transit in WalbrookBaltimore Streetcars on Fayette Street and Beyond1 min readThe Aurora Theatre Showing The Tall Texan1 min readThe Auditorium and Stanley Theatres on Howard Street1 min readproposed tunnel (1909)A Tunnel Proposal in The Baltimore Sun, 19091 min read
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